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In James Bond jagt Dr. No, dem 6. Bond-Roman von Ian Fleming, findet sich Bond in den Fängen eines grotesken Wahnsinnigen in dessen Geheimversteck in den Tropen wider... Dr. No, ein bösartiger Einsiedler mit mechanischen Scheren anstelle von Händen und einer sadistischen Faszination für Schmerz, hält Bond fest in seinem stahlharten Griff gefangen. Bond und Honey Rider, seine wunderschöne und verletzliche Begleiterin, wurden beim unerlaubten Betreten von Dr. Nos abgeschiedener karibischer Insel erwischt.

In the winter of 1972, esteemed French geologist and temporal theorist Dr. Michel Siffre descends alone into an uncharted cavern beneath the Pyrenees. His mission: to test the limits of human endurance and perception, cut off from all time, light, and life. Armed only with basic rations, a recorder, and the raw machinery of his mind, Siffre plans to chronicle the slow erosion of his circadian rhythm and consciousness. But what begins as a scientific endeavor soon warps into something far more terrifying.

M pense avoir une affaire facile pour 007. C'est exactement ce dont il a besoin après sa dernière rencontre presque fatale avec SMERSH. Cependant, en arrivant en Jamaïque pour rechercher un agent disparu et sa secrétaire, Bond apprend que le Dr Julius No, un homme reclus, pourrait être lié à leur disparition. Lorsque Bond et l'exotique Honeychile Rider sont emprisonnés sur l'île privée du Dr No, ils se rendent compte que ses plans pourraient menacer la sécurité à l'échelle internationale.

Seven years ago, Teddy Drucker disappeared. He changed his name, altered his appearance, and abandoned his corporate aspirations, fleeing for his life. He was in over his head with the cops who’d accused him of murdering his girlfriend and the kind of guys who don’t think twice about cleaning up loose ends with a well-placed bullet. Now, Trevor Dent is a new man with a PhD, a cute little car, and therapy clients who trust him with their dirty secrets. But when his new patient calls him by his old name and his girlfriend turns up missing, Trevor realizes the past can’t be erased.

They kill without conscience or remorse. They are the most ruthless enemy we have ever faced. And they are one millionth our size...Prepare to be shocked-and mesmerized-by Resistant, the latest novel of thrilling medical suspense from New York Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. When Dr...

En esta novela, Bond viaja al Caribe para investigar la desaparición de un agente y de su secretaria. Su contendiente será el lunático Doctor No, ungigante con la misión de capturar misiles estadounidenses por encargo de los soviéticos.

John Doe remembers nothing of his life before waking up in the hospital. He doesn't know he was a dangerous man, and he somehow has survived assassination by even more dangerous men. John needs long-term supervision and care to relearn how to live. Dr. Mitchell Oberon has been married to her surgical work for too long. She is comfortable in her spinsterish life. She resists being attracted to this brain-damaged patient with the body of Adonis and the mind of a child, but Agent Frank Stone, of Homeland Security, forces the doctor to take John Doe into her own home to recover.

Years before, when the two fought beside one another in Vietnam, a humiliating event occurred which would forever impact the younger soldier's psyche. Decades later, his former lieutenant is president of the United States, while the young medic has become Admiral John Townsend, the White House physician. But dark forces were at work behind the scenes, intent on unseating the president — by any means possible. Townsend discovers the plot to take President Meredity down. But is he up to the job, or will his deep-seated fears result in national tragedy?

In the thrilling sequel to Caged: A Mike McHaskell Novel, Marshall Black invites you back into the exciting yet deeply personal world of Mike McHaskell, a man walking the tightrope between duty and family.

Dr. Arman Pirouzi left Iran behind for a better life in the United States until he is reluctantly recruited by the CIA and returns to Tehran, where the ruthless IRGC hunts, tortures, and routinely kills spies and traitors with brutal efficiency. His mission: locate a critical asset, extract classified intelligence, and stop a war before it starts. His challenge: survive the most dangerous city in the world, where old friends become enemies, past loves are rekindled, and death waits around any corner. Capture means torture.

August 2016. Rowena Halley, PhD, is nursing a busted knee and a busted heart. Plus, her career path is on a toilet trajectory and the divisive politics of a particularly fraught election cycle are threatening to bust up her family, too. Then Madison, former student, (former?) drug addict, and troublemaker extraordinaire, comes bursting back into her life.

Die Leiche von der Krankenschwester wurde zugedeckt und abtransportiert. Larry Brent alias X-RAY 3 und Captain Yankins verständigten sich, sofort auf eine Großfahndung. Die Stadt erlebte den größten Einsatz ihrer Geschichte. Sämtliche Ausfallstraßen wurden abgeriegelt. Jeder Wagen, der die Stadt verlassen wollte, wurde von bewaffneten Beamten kontrolliert. Was für eine Bestie war für die Morde in der Stadt verantwortlich? Larry Brent in tödlicher Gefahr.

In this second book of the White House national security thriller series, Dr. Cameron Talbot, a famous expert on missile defense systems, returns to investigate how American airplanes could plummet from the sky - though nothing shows up on radar and none of the usual terrorist suspects have claimed responsibility. With the country in a panic and the economy taking a nose-dive, the beautiful scientist finds herself once again enmeshed in international plots as well as a romantic triangle in the highest levels of government.

The revised story of Checkmate is the first in The White House National Security series and features young scientist Dr. Cameron Talbot who invents a breakthrough technology to defend against cruise missiles. She needs support from skeptical company officers, funding from a reluctant Congress, and help from Lt. Col. Hunt Daniels, detailed to The White House NSC. With disaster brewing overseas, threats to New Delhi, the Taj Mahal, and to Cameron herself, she and Hunt find themselves enmeshed in terrorist plots and political wrangling at the highest levels.

Syrian-born CIA operative and retired Army major Sonia Amon is a battlefield surgeon at Walter Reed Hospital. She also teaches military strategy at the Army War College, which provides her cover as a CIA operative for the Middle East. Sonia is recalled to Syria to rebuild a series of primary care health clinics to offer basic care in war-ravaged Syria. But there is one problem. Her father is a terrorist who wants to kill her. He has hunted her for many years.

Raffiniert, rasant, doppelbödig: Ein packender Agenten-Thriller um einen internationalen Rache-Feldzug. Durch Zufall geraten zwei junge Männer Ende der 80er-Jahre ins Fadenkreuz der CIA: Ruben Diaz aus San Salvador beobachtet ein Massaker an jesuitischen Dozenten der Zentralamerikanischen Universität; der Schweizer Santino Marti wird als Tourist in Puerto Rico in ein Mord-Komplott gegen den nicaraguanischen Präsidenten verwickelt. Beide lässt die CIA verschwinden. Auf einem Gefängnisschiff im Golf von Mexiko, einer sogenannten "black site", treffen Ruben Diaz und Santino Marti aufeinander, die Leidensgenossen werden Freunde.